June 2011

LEAF and EV news

June 18, 2011

This weeks updates LEAF vs. Volt – Real world We generally don’t send our readers off to other blogs, but there is a real-world LEAF and Volt comparison article written by a person that actually owns one of each. The article is a decent representation of several months ownership and a combined 7,000 miles of […]

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San Diego gets its first publicly available EV Project charge stations

June 16, 2011

Balboa Park gets ten charging stations to launch first publicly available locations in San Diego With the requisite politicos and dignitaries present, San Diego finally saw some publicly available charge stations announced by the EV Project. Colin Reed, VP of Product Development with ECOtality had this to say “Having 1,000 commercial chargers up by the […]

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LEAF privacy concerns

June 15, 2011

RSS feed subscriptions pass location, speed info A Seattle blogger has determined that subscribing to RSS feeds from the LEAF CARWINGS system, the car is  was transmitting current information to the RSS feed provider. This information included current location, destination (if programmed) and current speed. This blogger has posted a video of what exactly was being […]

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Renault-Nissan Alliance to open Silicon Valley office

June 14, 2011

Conveniently located across from Google The Renault-Nissan Alliance will open a research office this month in Mountain View. Initial projects will be vehicle IT development, advanced engineering research and technology recruitment. We are already aware of some Googlers with LEAF orders on the books. Lest anyone think that this is just some publicity play on […]

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More LEAF news

June 13, 2011

2012 Nissan LEAF info Nissan just announced changes for the upcoming 2012 LEAF. As expected, there will be no major changes. The onboard charger will remain 3.3 kilowatt as opposed to the 6.6 kilowatt capacity that some had been hoping for. Also, no change to the battery pack. Our own guess is that neither of […]

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LEAF and EV news

June 11, 2011

Weekly roundup Nissan dealers getting LEAF demos Sighted this week at some Southern California Nissan dealerships were LEAF demo vehicles. This likely counts for some of the delay in getting vehicles into consumer’s hands. We don’t know how many Nissan dealerships are receiving the demo LEAFs, but it seems likely that all of the LEAF […]

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Google and the electric car

June 10, 2011

How Google is trying to change the world The Google really is not the “great and powerful” Oz, that many would paint it to be. Well, okay… maybe it is. But nonetheless, they have taken huge steps as a company to embrace ideals that have proven to reduce CO2 emissions while helping to guide their […]

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So really… what’s the real-world range of the Nissan LEAF?

June 9, 2011

That depends [UPDATE: As you can see above, this article was written based on the 2011 LEAF in June, 2011. The 2013 LEAF driving range has improved roughly fifteen percent with no expectation for improvement for the 2014 model year. The remaining information in the article remains relevant to your everyday driving.] The Nissan LEAF […]

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Inside NISMO LEAF

June 7, 2011

Ride along with the NISMO LEAF Nissan will be taking the NISMO LEAF to Le Mans to run in an exhibition event this week. The first exhibition will be held on Thursday with the second coming up on Saturday. We’ve linked you to some of the shakedown run videos previously offered by Nissan. This one […]

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Nissan partners with Japan Automobile Federation for mobile charger

June 6, 2011

DC Fast Charge to be offered for roadside assistance in Japan Nissan announced today a trial roadside assistance program to begin on June 7, 2011 (tomorrow). This Nissan/Japan Automobile Federation partnership initially will use one vehicle based out of JAF’s Kanagawa facility. As can be seen in the photo above, the charger is a DC […]

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